There is no tile on the top and no place under it

There is no tile on the top and no place under it

In pinyin, sh à NGW ú PI à NW à, Xi à w ú L à Zhu à zh à D à, it means to describe having nothing and being extremely poor.

source

Song Shidao's original "Jingde Zhuandeng Lu" Volume 20: "there is no tile on the top and no outstanding cone on the bottom. Where do scholars stand?"

Examples

The ninth chapter of he Dian: "it turns out that Liu's harvest of fighting ghosts resulted in female ghosts. He sold the old house site of living ghosts for his fingers, so that there was no tile on the top to cover his body, and there was no place for him to stand, so he had to stay with his mother."

usage

I'm very poor. I'm very poor